ABSTRACT


Dewi, C1C6 13 046, An Analysis of Expressives Used in Ice Age 3: Dawn of The Dinosaurs. English Literature Studies Program. Faculty of Cultural Stuidies at Halu Oleo University. Under Advisor byAnsor Putra as Supervisor and Arman as Co. Supervisor.

Speech act is an utterance that serves a function in communication. Expressive Act is a speech act that examines about speech-related speech or expression speakers to partners said. This study is intended to analyze Expressive used and the most dominant of Expressive are employed in Ice Age 3: Dawn of The Dinosaurs. The research questions of this study are formulated: (1) what is the expressives used that employed in Ice Age 3: Dawn of The Dinosaurs based on Illocutionary Searle’s category. (2) What is the most dominant expressives found in Ice Age 3: Dawn of The Dinosaurs. The research methodology used in study is descriptive qualitative. The source of data in this study is Ice Age 3: Dawn of The Dinosaurs movie by Micahel Bergthat is published in 2009. To collect the data the writer used some steps: reading the movie script carefully, identifying dialogue that contain the categories of Expressive used and the most dominant expressive found in Ice Age 3: Dawn of The Dinosaurs. The writer used John Searle’s perspective as tool for analyzing the finding of illocutionary act Expressive in Ice Age 3: Dawn of The Dinosaurs movie. The result of this study shows that there are 15 data of conversation were found in Ice Age 3: Dawn of The Dinosaurs. These data consist of 3 data of Thank you, 3 data of Apologize, 3 data of Condole, 4 data of Deplore, and 2 data of Welcome/ Greeting. Based on the result of this study, the most dominant of expressive found in Ice Age 3: Dawn of The Dinosaurs is Deplore that consists of 4 data.



Keywords: Illocutionary Act, Expressive, Thank you, Congratulate, Apologize Condole, Deplore, Welcome/Greeting.